Agree that this should be on the website, but as a workaround the app can sort on price.

It can? I'll have to give that a shot, thanks! I decided against booking a Marriott hotel on my next trip because there website has been so wonky lately. Do they really think people are willing to go through multiple pages of "unavailable" hotels, just to find a single one?

It can? I'll have to give that a shot, thanks! I decided against booking a Marriott hotel on my next trip because there website has been so wonky lately. Do they really think people are willing to go through multiple pages of "unavailable" hotels, just to find a single one?

My bold.
+1.
Marriott lost 9 nights to Hilton!
The web site is a disgrace!

It's crazy that they still haven't added this very basic and simple option on the dropdown menu on the official website.
Every hotel chain and hotel booking website has an option to view results in order of price.

Yes, I know the url workaround for the marriott website and I'm smart enough to use it...but the fact that this is still an issue makes it feels like its amateur hour over at Marriott.

It's crazy that they still haven't added this very basic and simple option on the dropdown menu on the official website.
Every hotel chain and hotel booking website has an option to view results in order of price.

Yes, I know the url workaround for the marriott website and I'm smart enough to use it...but the fact that this is still an issue makes it feels like its amateur hour over at Marriott.

Sort it out you lazy slackers.

My bet is that it is not unintentional. Or, at least, for the people that are responsible for Marriott digital, it is not unintentional.

My bet is that one of the KPIs/goals of the digital storefront product manager is to increase average revenue per room booked on the site (basically it's the whole reason they channel you to marriott.com rather than third parties - more revenue per booking and fewer third party fee payments). Making it hard to sort by price is a great way to do this: price sensitive customers say "screw it" and look elsewhere where they can easily sort by price. I'm sure some quick A/B testing led them to the conclusion that sorting by price reduced average revenue per booking and as such removed the button. The fact that the "sort" functionality does work but is not present on the UI supports this hypothesis.

The fact that it is leading to less bookings is irrelevant because either (a) it is not enough of a drop, (b) they blame it on the merger, (c) it is not measured as a KPI or not as measured as closely.